Prof. Phaedra Royle, University of Montreal

时间： 2015-11-19 13:50 - 15:50

地点： Room 1113, Wang Kezhen Building

A number of difficulties arise in the study of language development with or without ERPs. Although children show relatively systematic linguistic behavior, they are often unable to perform linguistic tasks. Furthermore, children usually cannot read. Studies of auditory language processing without task demands using ERPs allow us to monitor child language acquisition and processing while circumventing formal testing and written input. In this talk I will review a number of challenges in language processing ERP designs for the study of children. In particular I will highlight 1. Mistaken assumptions about what is being processed at a given point during a task (i.e., ungrammatical structures that are not ungrammatical at the point where they are analyzed), 2. Design flaws (e.g., analyzing ERPs time-locked to the wrong stimulus or apparent baseline problems) and 3. Methodological challenges involved in developing oral language stimuli for child oriented tasks (e.g., age-of acquisition effects for words or structures, etc.).

Although many issues remain, research on language acquisition using ERPs holds the potential to help us better understand language processing in the brain. Data from French language acquisition will be presented and promising avenues of research will be suggested.

2015-11-19

2015-11-19